Exeter, UK: Societas, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "In the summer of 2020, there was an eruption of violence directed towards historical monuments across Europe and North America. Statues were torn down while police watched. Prominent public figures, politicians and even museum directors cheered on the destruction. Supporters claimed it was payback for slavery; critics said it was neo-Marxist activism or sheer vandalism. Can we place the 2020 events in a...... More

Lincoln, NE: Federal Writers' Project, 1939. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "The present collection continues the recital of the farmers' grievances against the railroads (signalized by Jay Gould, John Thurston, and Mark Hanna) and the banking and political interests allied with them. Through high freight and interest rates, coupled with ruinously low prices for farm products, monopoly and speculation were dispossessing the farmer and arousing him to a reform campaign that..... More

New York, NY: Flatiron Books, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by President Joe Biden. "In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the previous forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a time to connect and to reflect on what the year had..... More

Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War/ Sixties Press, 1970. Pre-First Edition, Second Printing. Single Folded Sheet. "Helicopters flutter overhead. the death-/ bee is coming. Supersabres/ like knots of neurotic energy sweep/ around and return./ This is Hamilton's triumph./ This is the advantage of a centralized bank./ B-52's come from Guam. All the teachers/ die in flames. The hopes of Tolstoy fall asleep in the/ ant-heap./ Do not ask..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Oasis Publications, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. "(Breyten) Breytenbach has no ultimate truth to offer, no universal symbol to communicate. He has not prepared an aesthetic banquet for the senses, and there is no rhetoric in his visionary toasts. He shows unforgettably the plain facts of his panic paradise: Experiences of convulsion and passion, which he lived as a proud victim of his sensitivity, in a 'state of..... More

New York, NY: Arnold Gingrich, 1968. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the venerable men's magazine chiefly edited by Harold Hayes famously includes a compilation of articles under the title "Chicago: The Year of Our Lord, 1968," with contributions (in order) by Terry Southern ("Grooving in Chi"); Jean Genet ("The Members of the Assembly"); William S. Burroughs ("The Coming of the Purple Better One") & John Sack ("In..... More

New York, NY: Lisa Drew Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Barbara Bush. “In her memoir, Mrs. Bush for the first time gives readers a very private look at a life lived in the public eye for more than twenty-five years,” (from front flap). Barbara Pierce (1925-2018) met George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) before he shipped out for World War II, and they married upon his return when they were..... More

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1987. First American Edition. Softcover. Signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Irish for No represents (Ciaran) Carson's return to poetry after a decade's devotion to the making and maintenance of traditional music. In (Carson's first collection) The New Estate he writes of Belfast, "The city is a map of the city." In The Irish for No, Carson becomes the cartographer of..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Judson Crews (1917-2010) was a poet, a bookseller, and small press publisher born and raised in Waco, Texas. It was in Waco that Judson first opened his Motive Bookshop and from the Waco location issued his first Motive Press publications. It is Taos, New Mexico, though that scholars of mid-century countercultural literature associate most closely with Crews; as his..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2016. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Tommy thought that it was strange that so many people would want to move away from their homes and live so close together and in such big houses. He didn't like seeing all the trees being cut down and the top of the mountain being pushed away by all the big machines. He frowned thinking..... More

Ann Arbor, MI; Detroit, MI: Ann Arbor News; Detroit News; Campaign for Nuclear Free Ann Arbor, 1969; 1984. First Printings. Loose Folded Sheets; Single Sheet. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, affectionately nicknamed "Ike") was called "The Quintessential American" by journalist Andy Rooney. Not since George Washington had one great man accomplished so much, first in war as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II; then as..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1968. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "A Salute to 100,000 Stars" by Jean Genet (1910-1986), the great French avant-garde novelist, playwright & countercultural activist who earlier that pivotal year of 1968 had joined William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & Co. to "cover" the notorious Democratic National Convention in..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Already hailed in Europe as a masterpiece, Oriana Fallaci's powerful new novel is the dramatic love story of a man and a woman who are caught in the conflicts of political struggle and are moved inexorably toward a confrontation with death. In A Man Fallaci draws a dynamic portrait of the unparalleled hero of the Greek resistance, Alexander Panagoulis..... More